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If your boss tells you you'll lose your job if you don't have sex with him, and you quit to avoid that, would you disagree with the statement that you were forc
by logicchains 2y ago
If your boss tells you you'll lose your job if you don't have sex with him, and you quit to avoid that, would you disagree with the statement that you were forced to quit?
- BoredPositron 2y agoNo, words have specific meanings that should accurately reflect the nuances of the situation at hand.
- Vt71fcAqt7 2y agoForce: >violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon or against a person or thing[0] Compell: >1. to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly >2. to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure[1] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compel https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compel
- BoredPositron 2y agoSo? "Force to trust" like op wrote made absolutely no sense.
- binary132 2y agothe choice to have sex with someone or be fired is not a legitimate choice and framing it as one is also illegitimate. do you have a better suggestion for a term you would prefer?
- BoredPositron 2y agoIt is choice. That's the whole point of the discussion you might not like the choice you would have to take but it still is. If you want to convey that you get extorted do so but use the right words.
- Vt71fcAqt7 2y agoForce does not mean "no choice." >to make something happen or make someone do something difficult, unpleasant, or unusual, especially by threatening or not offering the possibility of choice[0] (notice or here) >If someone forces you to do something, they make you do it even though you do not want to, for example, by threatening you.[1] >to make someone do something that they do not want to do >I was forced to take a taxi because the last bus had left.[2] [0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/force https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/force [1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/force https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/forc... [2] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/force_2 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/ame...
- BoredPositron 2y agoYeah, still nobody can "force you to trust" anything. They might force you to comply with something but they can't force you to trust. That's just nonsense.
- Vt71fcAqt7 2y agoI didn't commend on that. I commented on you replying "no" to the question "If your boss tells you you'll lose your job if you don't have sex with him, and you quit to avoid that, would you disagree with the statement that you were forced to quit?" after which you edited all your previous comments. The first of which originally just read "force?" (a single word) which leads me to believe, along with your original response to the point I initially commented on, that you didn't have that point in mind. Also, "tust" in "force people to trust the medical industry" clearly means something along the lines of "to commit or place in one's care or keeping."[0] But that point is irrelevant because you made up that point after my initial response. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust
- BoredPositron 2y ago